M, #13971, b. 26 December 1763, d. 30 July 1833
| Source* | | Source(s): History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania with Illustrations and Bigraphical Sketches of Some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men - Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co. 1884 - pg 376 section on History of Bedford County. (SLC 873502)
Abraham Ash, Sr, moved to Flintsone bottom from Hagerstown, in 1795. He died in 1833. His children were: Jacob, David, George, Henry, Abraham, Amos, Emanuel, Jess, Mary (Bowser), Catharine (Keifer), Eliza (miller), Rebecca (Ingard), Tillie (Rose) and Sarah (Drowden). George, Henry, Emanuel, Jesse, Catharine, Rebecca and Tillie ares still living.
Amos Ash was born in 1802 and died in 1862. In 1832 he married Mary Bennett, who is still living, being now seventy four years of age. Her son Abraham, who resides on the old Ash homestead, is one of the progressive and prosperous farmers of this locality. |
| Birth* | 26 December 1763 | Abraham Ash was born on 26 December 1763 at Hagerstown, Washington Co., Maryland. |
| Marriage* | circa 1785 | He married Mary (__________) circa 1785 "(I presume in Hagerstown MD, though I have not documented this).They had 9 children I know of, born 1785-1805.They moved to Flintstone MD c1795, intermediate to eventual move to Bedford PA (date unknown, or buried in my notes somewhere)."1
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| Marriage* | | Abraham Ash married Catherine Coontz "Mary died c1814, and Abraham promptly married Catherine Coontz, 20 years younger, and this, my inference, was her third marriage. I assume by now, he was in Bedford.
Abraham and Catherine had 5 children together: Eliza 1815, Talitha 1818, Emmanuel & Jesse 1820 (twins born on her 36th birthday), Rebeckah 1824, and Sarah Jane 1829."1 |
| Death* | 30 July 1833 | Abraham Ash died on 30 July 1833 at Cumberland Valley, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania, at age 69. |